Subject: Job Opportunities in Speech Recognition & Natural Language Processing
From: sljobs <sljobs@cre.canon.co.uk>
To: elsnet-list@let.ruu.nl
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 13:39:15 +0000

The Speech and Language group at Canon Research Centre Europe (CRE) is
expanding rapidly. We have a number of positions for exceptionally
talented research scientists and top quality software engineers.

Canon has 70,000 employees worldwide and is an acknowledged
world-leader in many markets, including cameras, photocopiers and
printers. Constant innovation underlies Canon's success and at CRE you
will have the opportunity to play a significant part in this.

The roles are at levels from fresh PhD/exceptional graduate to
experienced researcher/engineer. We are looking for people with a
first-class academic background in computer science, electrical
engineering, computational linguistics, physics, mathematics or
similar quantitative science, a high degree of curiosity and the
ability to learn quickly - self-motivated people who like to
continuously improve and excel.

We are looking for:

    Research scientists - with strong analytical and programming
    skills. A higher degree or similar experience in any of the
    following areas would be an advantage:

    - digital signal processing or image processing
    - speech recognition algorithms (particularly large vocabulary)
    - natural language processing or computational linguistics

    Software engineers - with excellent software engineering and
    programming skills using C/C++. Experience in any of the following
    areas would be an advantage:

    - project leadership
    - commercial software projects
    - software embedding on dedicated hardware
    - large robust software systems
    - speech recognition or signal processing
    - man-machine interaction

Successful candidates will join a high calibre team performing
research and work on practical implementations in the following
project areas:

    Speech recognition: we require researchers to further develop our
    compact speech recogniser and software engineers to integrate it
    into advanced products.

    Speech understanding: we require researchers to take leading roles
    shaping a young project on interactive voice driven technology. We
    also need software engineers for product integration of this
    system.

    Information retrieval: we require software engineers to work on
    implementations of our information retrieval technology for
    networked multimedia applications.

    Product conceptualisation and prototyping: we require software
    engineers with strong interest in user interface and product
    design issues to develop simulations and prototypes of new product
    concepts integrating our speech and language technologies.

We offer an excellent working environment and a highly competitive
salary and benefits package.

For a more detailed description of these job opportunities and further
information about CRE, please consult our web pages at:

    http://www.cre.canon.co.uk/

To apply, please send your CV, with a covering letter stating which
position you are interested in, to:

    Paula Mason (recruitment)
    Canon Research Centre Europe Limited
    1 Occam Court
    Surrey Research Park
    Guildford
    GU2 5YJ
    United Kingdom

    fax:   +44 (0) 1483 448845
    email: sljobs@cre.canon.co.uk

Because of British law, preference will be given to applicants who
already have the right to work in the United Kingdom.